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Returned fliers at the Don-
Ce-Sar Convalescent Center
at St. Petersburg, Fla., prov-
ed that they were well on the
road to recovery when they
picked such a gorgeous little
arm-full as Ardis Sheffer as
their “Sea Shell Queen.” The
shell that the pretty water
nymph is snuggling to her
ear is murmuring nothing
but praise.
Nazi Fails To Show
Draft Card—Nabbed
In Phoenix, Arizona
Capl. Jurgen Waltenberg,
German naval officer and
(he highest ranking of the
25 war prisoners who escap-
ed from Papago Park Camp
on Christinas day, was cap-
tured in downtown Phoenix,
Ariz., this week- Police Sgt.
Gilbert Brady of the Phoenix
force made the arrest when
Wattenberg failed to show
his draft card.
Wattenberg, the last of the
escapees to be taken, refused
to tell his whereabouts dur-
ing the month he was free.
Most of his companions were
rounded up on the desert be-
tween Phoenix and the Mex-
ican border.
Kate Smith has listed as
her all-time favorite songs:
“God Bless America,” “Star-
dust,” “Bicycle Built For
Two,” “Melancholy Baby,”
“My Old Kentucky Home,”
“Alexander’s Ragtime
Band,” “Home On ' The
Range,” “Mighty Like A
Rose,” “Ah, Sweet Mystery
of Life,” and “Down by the
Old Mill Stream.”
Ken Murray, Jack Benny
and Henny Youngman are
all sponsored by cigarette
manufacturers, yet they are
cigar smokers of the first
water .... Budd}' Rich,
drummer with the Tommy
Dorsey aggregation, ends a
one-year contract in May
to form his own band ....
Betty F'ield has taken over
the Margaret Sullavan role
in THE VOICE OF THE
TURTLE. Miss Sullavan is
Hollywood-bound.
Frank Sinatra, as recently
mentioned in GI FOOTNOT-
ES, and his “Hit Parade”
sponsor have separated be-
cause the “Voice” reputedly
sang his songs too slowly to
suit the man with the mon-
ey. One version of this break
is that Frankie couldn’t
keep up with the orchestr-
a’s tempo on “Don’t Fence
Me In.” Almost breathless
in the middle of the song,
Sinatra gasped “this song
has too many words” and
theVremark was heard from
coast to coast. Format of the
“Hit Parade” remains the
same with Joan Edwards
and Marc Warnow’s hand
staying on. Forty-nine-year-
old Met Opera star Lawrence
Tibbett will do the “top tun-
es” on the CBS favorite
which is heard each week
over the local Armed Forc-
es Radio Station.
Gloria Vanderbilt, heiress
to a multimillion dollar for-
tune, and Pat De Cicco, act-
or’s agent and son of an Ital-
ian-horn truck farmer, have
ended their romance in se-
paration. The couple were
married a little over three
years ago. Gloria becomes of
age next month and will in-
herit a four-and-one-half-
million dollar fortune left
her by her grandfather, Cor-
nelius Vanderbilt, and her
father, Reginald.
Cecile II. De Mille, screen
producer, lost his court fight
this week against the right
of his union, American Fed-
eration of Radio Artists, to
suspend him because he had
failed to pay a one dollar
assessment. Judge Emmeth
Wilson’s opinion said the
union had the right to levy
an assessment for the fund
to oppose what it consider-
ed to he an anti-labor am-
endment to the California
State Constitution. The un-
ion had threatened to bar De
Mille from his ,$5,000 a week
coast-to-coast “Radio Theat-
er” program unless he paid
the assessment. Rather than
pay the fine, the famed dir-
ector resigned from the pro-
gram.
N„Y. H©p©rter ToM Bv Husbands,
Wives That Double Bed Has
“Outlived Its Usefulness"
wouldn’t know what to do
The Inquiring Photograph-
er of the X.Y. Daily News
recently asked New York-
ers, “After 20 years of trial,
do you think twin beds are
belter than double beds?”
Lee Gordon, a Park Ave.
saleswoman, said: “Yes, aft-
er 20 years, a double bed has
outlived its usefulness.”
Mickey Flynn, a Brooklyn
housewife declared: “My
husband has been fighting in
the Pacific for two years and
I’ve slept alone so long I
in a double bed.” George
Cardamone of Thornwood,
N.Y-, said: “I sleep like a
rock. What do youj want me
to do, wake up and jump
from one bed to another?
No thanks.” And Mrs. Maud
W. Florian replied: “A
double bed is no good when
you’re married to a fat
man.” The response, how-
ever, is not considered “con-
clusive.”
THE LUNATIC
FRINGE
TULSA, OKLA.: For two
hours a couple of ex-GIs par-
aded through the streets here
dressed in Nazi uniforms —
complete with swastikas —
and weren’t challenged once.
“We even visited the mili-
tary police barracks and
took pictures,” said the vets.
They said that only three
persons — all civilians —
showed any interest. “Two of
them were girls who whistl-
ed at us,” they said, “and the
other was a man who asked
: where we came from.
When we told him we were
Norwegians, he wished us
luck.”.
OMAHA, NEB.: When Ar-
thur Peable, a vacuum clean-
er salesman, knocked on the
door of a vine-covered cot-
tage here, the lady of the
house dropped a geranium
pot on his head from an up-
stairs window- “Sorry,” she
explained later. “I thought
you were my husband.”
NEW YORK: John Santos
stopped by his girl friend’s
house around midnight and
said it would he kind of nice
to have a cup of coffee.
When she refused to make
him one, he jumped off the
roof.
UNHEATED THEATERS AND SCHOOLS
CLOSE AS COAL SHORTAGE BECOMES
WORSE—PROTESTANT COMMITTEE
OPPOSES PARTITION OF NAZILAND
Additional conservation measures were taken this
week in the northeastern states because of the acute coal
shortage- The city of Syracuse, N.Y., received a proclama-
tion from Mayor Thomas E. Kennedy closing the schools,
libraries, museums and non-essential businesses.
Mayor La Guardia of New York City declared there
would he no more coal for amusement centers and uni-
versities except by his written permission. Mayor Charles
A. Ross of Quincy, Mass., ordered all coal there pooled
and distributed from police headquarters. Each customer
will be allowed a maximum of 100 pounds. Mayor Dennis
J. Roberts of Providence, R.I., said the city trucks would
carry fuel to families suffering most.
The acute shortage was felt even in the bituminous
center of Pittsburgh where retail coal merchants dec-
ided to permit coal pickups in bushel baskets. Yards re-
mained open last Sunday. Cleveland’s Mayor Thomas E*
Burke requested theaters and taverns to close indefini-
tely and asked a ten percent cut in domestic electricity
‘’consumption.
Meanwhile, the War Production Board lifted “brown-
out” restrictions on the Pacific northwest states and Tex-
as and three smaller areas where electric power is gen-
erated without coal.
Protestant Peace delegates, convened in Cleveland,
have asked their churches to endorse the Dumbarton
Oaks World Security Plan. The convention also has de-
bated on the recommendation for peace terms to Ger-
many and Japan. A committee, headed by John Foster
Dulles and Methodist Bishop Bromley Oknam, has re-
commended against partition of Germany into separate
states and said treatment of Japan “should aim to bring
Japan, at an early date, into normal relations with the
world community.”
An Associated Press report credits Rep. Clare Booth
Luce, Rep.-Gonn., as telling the House last week that the
Army should work out a relief system to give the war’s
front-line soldiers a periodic respite from battle. Reporting
on her recent tour of battlefields, she said that in addi-
tion to rotation and furlough plans, there “must soon
be added a fixed tour of duty under fire for the indivi-
dual soldier after which he should be given a substantial
relief period of service in a non-combatant area.” She
called attention to the record of the 34th Inf. Div. of the
Fifth Army which has served over 400 days in combat.
Maury Maverick, Vice Chairman of the WBP, wants
to abolish the term “Gl Joe.” He says it’s beneath the
dignity of the American—an expression referring to them-
selves. In addition, he also wants “less hooey’ ’about sol-
diers saying “Mom” and “Pop.” He says all the boys he
talked to always said “Mother.”
New York City’s Department of Sanitation men have
their hands full, above, as they clean up the snow and
slush at Columbus Circle after the sun started melting
the three-and-a-half inch snow-fall earlier this month.